Obit: Carter, Claude J. (1872 - 1951)

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Surnames: CARTER GREENE DEPAGES PAGES
 

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook, Marshfield News Herald Collection 05/ /1951

CARTER GREENE DEPAGES
 

Carter, Claude J. (1872 - 1951)
 

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY Funeral services for Claude Jay Carter, 78, a resident here the past 71 years, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Stabnow Funeral Home, where the body is reposing. Mr. Carter died at his home at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday, May 15, 1951.

The Rev. Lee H. Holmes, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, will officiate and the services and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Carter was born Nov. 29, 1872, in Neillsville. At the age of seven he moved with his parents to Greenwood. There he was married to the former Maude Greene Jan. 8, 1906. He was employed as a trucker for 40 years.

He played with the 32nd Regiment Band under the direction of Theodore Steinmetz. He also played with the Greenwood City Band from the time it was organized in the 1890 s until 1937.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Muricio (Iliss) DePages, Buenos Aires, Argentina, S. A. one grandson and his mother, Mrs. Nancy Carter, 96, a patient at Veterans Home at King.